Web Application Monitoring Tools

Every day thousands of websites slow down to a crawl, sites go completely offline or suffer seemingly random issues. Many of these issues end up costing the site owners thousands of dollars in lost conversions. This site was designed to help identify the best tools to find and troubleshoot these issues and resolve the problems.

We have carefully selected and reviewed three of the top web application monitoring tools to help you determine the best way to solve your particular problems and to monitor your environments for further issues.

We understand that there are many more solutions out there, and new tools arrive on the market every day, but we feel the coverage of the tools we have focused on gives us a solid base to form the foundation of your monitoring toolset.

Key factors in web application monitoring include:

website uptime/downtime

page load speed

element load speed trends

page load speed under stress of many users

infrastructure capacity

site load trends as content increases

real user monitoring (RUM)

synthetic monitoring

rich internet application (RIA) monitoring

When monitoring the status and performance of websites and web applications, there are a variety of relevant metrics to consider. For example, individual page load speed is extremely important to the overall user experience. Monitoring this particular metric can help increase your visitor retention rate while potentially reducing things like support ticket requests.

Another important metric to consider is functionality. While a shopping cart on an e-commerce website may load fast, it may not be fully-functional; thus, it is important to monitor a variety of metrics to get a complete picture of the health of your website. With this in mind, we’ve taken a number of factors into consideration when designing the comparison categories listed on this website, to account for a wide range of use cases and monitoring requirements.